Saturday, March 27, 2010

I was wondering who would be the first to register dotcanon.com. Now I know. dotcanon.com was registered last week.

Wether it is a company name, a project or a brand, the «dot» sign seems to become the nomenclature to use when registering a domain name related to a Top Level Domain project.

For example : the TLD project related to the hotel business can be found at www.dothotel.com.

When checking generic keywords : it is possible to «discover» a new TLD project, an old existing web site, a recent page with sponsored links (how surprising?) or...an already cybersquatted domain name.

Now, my concern goes to brands thinking about their personalized TLD : should they register their .com domain name which could inform about their intention to go for their extension or should they not to keep this confidential ?

My advice ?

Chances are high these domains will be cybersquatted at some point anyway. Brands should register, at least, their dot”brand”.com domain name.

A discussion in English only with no possibility to express, question, comment in any other language but English. Note if you want to participate in new gTLD projects, you'd better be able to express yourself in English !

It is possible you also saw this person trying to question panel members in French during the conference.